Final_Project

Final Project redo

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Artist: Robert Adams

Date: 1969

Title: Frame for a Tract House, Colorado Springs, Colorado

I really enjoy Robert Adams landscape photography and it resembles Lewis Baltz work.  I think they did work together and their black & white work really amazes me.  This photo shows a house under-construction that isolates humans and shows space.  The composition and how the house is center completes this image.  I also like the mountain in the horizon that kind of does not look like its there and is far away.  There is also a great balance between the tension and the foreground with the pictorial frame is the key to this image.  Overall i enjoy the black&white and the landscape photos by Robert Adams.

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Artist: Diane Arbus

Date: 1962

Title: Boy with Toy Hand Grenade 

The boy with a hand grenade in Central park seems no different from any other child his age; his strange face expression and posture makes us view the image different.  The boy's photo is caught with a strange look on his face with one hand gripping a toy hand grenade while they other hand poses the same grip with nothing in it.  To my understanding and interpretation the image represents the time period that the boy was in when young boys were drafted to go to war in Vietnam and his face seems to be uncomfortable and exasperated.  This image is one of many in a series Diane Arbus took of the boy while he was at the park and this was the only image that was out of place because the rest of his images were happy and he looked to be an ordinary kid.  Arbus's work seem to be a stab across American culture and she usually photographed the inhabitants of New York city.  She seeks those at the edges of society and reflecting daily life.

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            My artwork takes a critical view in the beauty of details that we don’t usually pay attention to.  I developed a series of 5 images of different objects that are cut up into pieces to show the detailed beauty of the object.  I’ve done my job as an artist if I could make you realize that an object is not just an object but it has it’s own beauty in every part of it.  I was inspired by David Hockney and really enjoyed the different collages that he has done.  There are endless sources of information that can be created through collages.

-Bao Giang

                                                                       

               

Reading_Review

Yesterday's Sandwich

This reading was written by Boris Mikhailov a Russian photographer who inadequately superimposed two slides together and created a montage of different images.  He would call the series a 'Sandwich' which could never be exhibited for people to see.  There was a well known official Serguei Morozov that Mikhailov showed his series to who refused to let him to exhibit his series to the public due to the content he had in his images.  Also the story about one of the greatest post-war Soviet photographers Vitas Luckus who was offended about his work and let the anger out to kill a man over it was very crazy!  To think a man at his peak would let a simple criticism destroy his whole life and career.  I also enjoyed the part when Mikhailov highlighted the different countries montages and how they were all different.  Lastly i found it really interesting when he spoke about his "Creative life" and the three traditions of Russian culture that survived during the Soviet regiem. 

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Artist: Curtis Mann
Date: 2010
Title: Second Sky

This collage by Curtis Mann is beautifully portrayed with a feel of a pinkish orange sunset.  These are huge prints of Chemically altered chromogenic development prints which contains one or many layers of silver halide emulsion, along with dye couplers that, in combination with processing chemistry, form visible dyes. In processing, the silver image of each layer is first developed.  I never knew about this process and it's pretty cool the effects it creates on the images.  In this collage by Mann it looks as if there are about seven different scenes with the same exact sky which makes the collage a lot more interesting to look at. 

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Artist: Joyce Neimanas

Date: 1982

Title: Alice In Wonderland

Joyce Neimanas's Polaroid collages are really chaotic and amazing to me.  You have to actually look closely to see what is going on in the images, but you can tell right away what is in the photos right away.  There is a baby sitting in the left with a man lying down on the right and also a woman's feet on the top of the image in high-heels.  I really like the quality of the Polaroid's colors and how some images are really clear and some are a bit of a blur which brings out the subject of the composition. Overall collages from Neimanas really catches my eye and the quality and quantity of the photos used.